Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man! Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels... The Science of English Verse - Página 185de Sidney Lanier - 1880 - 295 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 244 páginas
...worship thrice sacred to devotion : its violation is a triple sacrilege. But " Man, vain man, " Brest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven " As make the angels weep." 3. Far on the solitary shore he sleeps. Stanza v. line 2. It was not always... | |
| 1845 - 780 páginas
...second right, and had our great "medicine man" in his eye, when he wrote the oft-quoted passage— " Man dressed in a little brief authority. Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep." f Your obedient servant, PROBE. A Subscriber.—The operation, about which... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 334 páginas
...worship thrice sacred to devotion: its violation is a triple sacrilege. But " Man, vain man, " Drest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven " As make the angels weep." r 3. Far on the solitary shore he sleeps. Stanza v. line 2. It was not... | |
| Hugh Owen, John Brickdale Blakeway - 1825 - 662 páginas
...; lastly, he was a contemner and oppressor of our holy mother the Church 1 ." Man, proud man, Brest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes the angels weep. A few words must be said of the earl's posterity. His only son, deprived... | |
| Hugh Owen - 1825 - 272 páginas
...; lastly, he was a contemner and oppressor of our holy mother the Church 1 ." Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes the angels weep. A few words must be said of the earl's posterity. His only son, deprived... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1826 - 414 páginas
...all these powerful inducements to the exercise of humility, man dares to be proud and arrogant. •" Man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep." How affecting, to contemplate the warrior, flushed with diabolical pride,... | |
| Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 páginas
...of lustihood," should plunge into the vortex of criminal excess, when AGE, "settled age," " Dress'd in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before High Heaven, " As makes the Angels weep. In consequence of the continued unruliness of the Burchenschqft gentry... | |
| J. A. B. Beaumont - 1828 - 294 páginas
...power, as a highwayman does his pistol, for purposes of extortion, is abominable. • But man, weak man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep." The whole expenses which I was called upon to pay, in consequence of this... | |
| Francis Lathom - 1828 - 896 páginas
...thunder! Nothing but thunder ! Merciful Heaven I Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bait Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. But man !—proud man ! Brest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence—like... | |
| William Pitt Scargill - 1828 - 274 páginas
...how much he can command, is slow at making exhibition of his force ; but • man proud nian!' /• Dressed in a little brief authority, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high hearcn, As mako the angels weep.'" j/ •' I remember, sir," said I, " to have seen once, in the library... | |
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